Top 93 Obey Love Quotes
#2. I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#3. I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.
Richard LaGravenese
#4. Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
Alex Grey
#5. Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.
Brigham Young
#6. Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
Plato
#9. God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.
Billy Graham
#10. People who love each other don't bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#11. You're confusing love and obedience. You'll obey me without loving me, and without my loving you. With
Pauline Reage
#12. Callie stared at Daniel. "Bastard!" she hissed. He smiled serenely. His grip was still upon her and he pulled her close, whispering. "The bastard you are about to promise to love, honor, and obey." "I don't love you." "I'm merely shooting for two out of three, and the last two will do nicely.
Heather Graham
#13. If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
#14. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal.
Oswald Chambers
#15. Hail, Aslan. We hear ans obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know.
C.S. Lewis
#16. Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.
Rashi
#17. People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#18. Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
Plato
#19. I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.
James Anthony Froude
#21. We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their God simply because they love their God.
Criss Jami
#22. To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
Matt Chandler
#23. God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
Henry Blackaby
#24. God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!
Mike Bickle
#25. May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
Ayn Rand
#29. Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.
Kevin DeYoung
#31. To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. No, my darling. I'll love the woman you keep hidden inside you. You've led men to battle, but never into your heart. Men respect you, they obey you, but they see you as a warrior. You've never had the chance to blossom.
Susan Wiggs
#33. Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.
The Catholic Church
#34. Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Aristotle.
#35. Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#36. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. From the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on.
Marcel Proust
#38. I am yours to command, my queen," he whispered, making my heart clench in complete, helpless love. "I will obey, even if you order me to cut out my own heart. Even if you order me to the hell that is the Winter Court Elysium.
Julie Kagawa
#39. The more we obey God, the more we desire to help others. The more we help others, the more we love God and on and on. Conversely, the more we disobey God and the more selfish we are, the less love we feel.
John H. Groberg
#40. A person motivated by love rather than fear will not only obey the letter of the law, but will eagerly seek out new ways to carry out business with transparency and integrity.
Timothy Keller
#41. Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran
#42. We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.
Nadege Richards
#43. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
Joyce Meyer
#44. Saviour! teach me, day by day,Love's sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving Him who first loved me.Charity is the very livery of Christ.
Hugh Latimer
#45. Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.
Beth Moore
#46. What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic ... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less?
Miyuki Miyabe
#47. Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!
John Milton
#48. We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.
Rick Warren
#49. How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.
Brigham Young
#50. A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
Calvin Miller
#51. How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
Timothy Keller
#52. Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.
Leo Burnett
#54. The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things
to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.
Christian Scriver
#55. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.
Anonymous
#56. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
Donald Miller
#57. Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.
Martha Finley
#58. If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.
Henry Blackaby
#59. But this world is changing. Perhaps by the time you are old enough to marry the world will hear a woman's voice. Perhaps she will not have to swear to obey in her wedding vows. Perhaps one day a woman will be allowed to both love and think.
Philippa Gregory
#60. The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?
Alan De Jager
#61. Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.
Bill Bright
#62. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#63. Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#65. In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
Alexander Pope
#66. It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
Saint Ignatius
#68. We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#69. The extent of our love to the Lord is shown by the way we obey His commands. Love does all that it can to make the loved one happy.
Andrew Murray
#70. The emptinesss was a hole that only he could fill. He was the relief. It pulled from every direction, this yearning for him. All he needed to do was speak the words, "Kiss me," and I would obey.
Jessica Therrien
#71. Birds don't build nests on fruitless trees, whores have no love for poor men, and citizens don't obey a powerless king!
Ashwin Sanghi
#72. He doesn't want you to obey a bunch of rules, He wants your love.
Lacey Sturm
#73. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.
Gloria Steinem
#74. Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
C.S. Lewis
#76. I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
Katharine Hepburn
#77. Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.
Robert Frost
#78. Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him (pp. 94-95).
A.W. Tozer
#79. Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world ...
David B. Haight
#80. Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.
Santosh Kalwar
#81. Wicked me obey from fear;
good men,from love.
Aristotle.
#82. When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover's dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#83. They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?
Marisha Pessl
#84. If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ, incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They will pass into a night on which no morning dawns.
David Platt
#85. Athenian men, I respect and love you,
but I shall obey the god rather than you ...
Socrates
#86. For the
Christian, as for the Marxist, nature must be subdued. The Greeks are of the opinion that it is better to
obey it. The love of the ancients for the cosmos was completely unknown to the first Christians, who,
moreover, awaited with impatience an imminent end of the world.
Albert Camus
#87. Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are "The Commanded Conjoined Twins" for Jesus Followers; they must never be separated if we wish to obey Jesus' "Platinum Rule"!
Gary Patton
#88. The first purpose of your life is to be loved by God! Yes, it is important to serve him, obey, and trust him, but your first purpose is to love him.
Rick Warren
#89. I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.
Albert Mohler
#91. Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.
Dan Baumann
#92. Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith ... Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.
Saul D. Alinsky
#93. Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.
Aristotle.
